**Performance Makes and the Evo DSM**

As I was working on my Evo DSM project, I had to make some adjustments to the engine to get it running smoothly. One of the things that caught my attention was how Performance Makes handles delete and replacement of parts. Specifically, they have a unique way of deleting the bearing oil galleys in their blocks.

To do this, they use a drill bit to run through the oil galley and then insert a plug to seal it off. This means that the new bearings don't need to be installed because they're already sealed by the plug. It's a clever solution that saves time and effort when upgrading or replacing parts.

I recently ordered a performance kit from Performance Makes, which included two new bearings and was relatively cheap at $36 on their website. The kit came with all the necessary instructions and hardware, making it easy to install.

As I was getting ready for my trip, I had some frappuccinos from Starbucks with my friend Dustin's crew. We even got a few of these weird little drinks that tasted like Laffy Taffy and chemicals - not bad!

While we were on the road, we stopped at an indoor go-kart track for a qualifying session. The track was set up in reverse, which added to the challenge of navigating it quickly. I qualified mid-pack in the first heat, but unfortunately didn't advance far enough to make it into the next round.

Despite not making it to the finals, it was still a fun experience driving at high speeds and watching my opponents navigate the track. The cars are very momentum-based, which means that drivers need to be precise with their movements to avoid losing traction or getting passed by other drivers.

After a few laps of intense racing, I found myself battling out the rest of the heat against one driver in particular. We were neck-and-neck for most of the session, but ultimately I couldn't find enough space to overtake them and had to settle for second place.

As we were leaving the track, I saw that my friend Justin had already received the engine he'd been waiting for from Performance Makes. The new manifold looked amazing, with its bottom mount design making it look sleek and modern. I was surprised by how in-your-face it was - I thought it would be flipped, but nope!

Justin's progress on his build is always a great inspiration to me, and I'm excited to see what the next step will bring for his Evo DSM. With fingers crossed that he'll be able to get everything started and tuned up soon, we can't wait to see how the engine performs.

**The Experience of Indoor Go-Karting**

One of my favorite parts about attending an indoor go-kart track was the opportunity to drive on a different layout than I'm used to. Since most tracks run in one direction, it's always interesting to experience a change of pace and learn how to navigate the track in reverse.

As we drove around the track, I noticed that the cars were very momentum-based - drivers need to be precise with their movements to avoid losing traction or getting passed by other drivers. This added an extra layer of challenge to the racing, as it was clear that every move had a significant impact on our speed and position.

Despite the difficulty, I enjoyed watching my opponents navigate the track and making strategic decisions about where to push hard and when to ease off. The go-karting session was also a great way to focus on driving skills without worrying about other factors like fuel efficiency or safety - it was just pure adrenaline-fueled racing fun.

**The Go-Kart Session Montage**

To give you a better idea of the track, I've included some footage from my go-karting session. You can see me navigating the turns and trying to find space between other drivers. Keep in mind that this is just a short clip, but it should give you an idea of what the racing was like.

Unfortunately, we didn't make it far enough into the heat to get into the finals, so I couldn't show off my full skills on camera. However, it's always fun to try and push myself to be faster and more precise behind the wheel.

As for Justin's engine build, he made some great progress and is now getting closer to having a finished car. With any luck, we'll see him on the track soon, looking sharp in his new Evo DSM.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwalking through the parking lot on my video rendering my Starbucks look at this big ol thing sticking out like crazy there is something that I've been keeping from you guys and it's kind of a little bit more in a personal level and something that I've been embarrassed to talk about and but I feel like I kind of need to explain to give you guys a better idea of why things have kind of been how they've been and why I've been feeling a certain type of way so definitely not something I'm comfortable with admitting but about a year ago a year and a half ago I saw my first episode of initial D and I wasn't too stoked I didn't understand the hype never thought anything of it somehow I gave it another shot and once I got into season 2 where the Evo's came out I was hooked like every end of every single episode had to keep watching the next one another thing that I learned too is you have to watch it subbed not dubbed it's much better but anyway yeah I was embarrassed that I watched initial Dean didn't like it and I'm so late to the game but I've just really been enjoying it I found myself staying up to like 3 a.m. every night watching this would be and then waking up early because I don't have blinds and it's made me kind of tired so I'm getting a later start today but we're in Wallingford we're gonna run over to more fab got a bunch of rad stuff in for the Evo I'm pretty sure we have everything we need to maybe even get it running today so I'm gonna go over there check it one Justin she got some of the new rad parts we got from my performance you'll get some stuff done I'm sleepy bump in that new wage war I also found out Justin has someone that will fastest Wi-Fi around so I also get my videos up pretty quick definitely convenient look like my chocolate ruined said hey Justin do you have a fridge that I could put my five-pound bag of gummy worms in okay cool thanks that's all I need alright Justin so I've been gone what like a day and you've almost got it ready to go back in the car so give me a quick update walk around what you've been up to any weird things or what you've kind of been going through with this process okay well there's actually quite a few weird things this is an Evo a block with an Evo 8 cylinder head we had to fit the Evo 5 water outlet which is not a huge deal but the Evo 5 pipe we had to modify the bracket back here just a hair to get it in there so the bolt still doesn't go in but it is super tight and there are a few other odds and ends that we had to modify another one being the water pump in the alternator bracket and we needed a longer bolt and then we had to modify this case right here to fit over the Evo a water pump cuz that's for the Evo 5 so just been a lot of little quirky things and then what's been taking a lot of time is this was a bear long block and by bear long block it had absolutely no Hardware on it whatsoever so we've been having to actually tear down the old motor just to get all the bolts and nuts and brackets and everything else that go with it so definitely takes a little bit of time but he's ready to go one of the little like setbacks when you were pulling apart the Eva 5 engine we had some more damage we found that the sprocket that drives the oil pump was actually cracked the crank position sensor was broken the crank trigger wheel was bent so there was a lot of stuff we had to wait on some parts to get in and luckily ma overnighted torso yep so we're in good shape but I seen you over here well you got four different torque wrenches are using on this thing yeah we're using an inch pound wrench for the ten millimeter bolts we're using a foot-pounds wrench for the for the twelve millimeter bolts and then the big ones like the crank bolt stuff like that we use so make sure everything got torqued down properly if you want these things to last you gotta torque these things down where you like using like the Mitsubishi spec sheet or something yeah actually have seven page spec sheets specifically for the engine so everything on this engine is torqued to the factory specification sheet that's sick we don't usually do that well like torque a few of the important things but that's legit so anyway cool looks like it's coming in good shape that fresh new oil pan on there Derek did you see the old oil pan oh yeah oh there it is yep I don't know what kitty litter got in my engine though that's a little weird maybe that's why I blew up so some of the other exciting goodies that came in the mail first off we have a tubular manifold so a my performance actually makes this for Evo 8/9 but it'll work on the five so we can keep the stock location stock turbo setup with the Evo nine turbo or if we decide to go with an upgraded stock frame in the future but now we've got a nice tubular manifold so this thing's pretty durable take welded and what me and Justin we're looking at before that's really nice is all these transitions or CNC ported so they're nice and smooth there are a lot of times on manifolds you'll kind of get like a rough transition there and that can't be good for flow so this is pretty nice Justin you approve you like this thing yeah I'm curious to see what its gonna sound like to you know we've changed quite a bit of stuff I mean I don't think the compression will make that big of a difference but with a new manifold now and the new Thai exhaust this thing's probably gonna sound rad so this is really cool I'm excited to see the difference and this thing's gonna look awesome in there too this thing's really pretty another cool little random thing I got from my performance I didn't want to put a stinky old valve cover on a fresh new built engine so they were able to help me source a brand new Evo eight valve cover so this thing's all nice and pretty red like it would be on a brand new Evo eight so it's pretty rad looking you think you like it Justin what don't you like all right fair enough one other thing that I got from ma performance was probably the last fun bit for today's video well at least for today's video on parts is what I mean is their prototype coil on plug setup so this is something that most people with Evo's do that I was kind of lagging on check this out this thing is rad it's got a really nice billet mounting plate with these Denso coil packs it's got its own little harness too which is pretty cool so it's just plug and play so I don't think these are available yet but they did say that these will be coming out soon so I'm one of the first people to get my hands on these there's a few benefits of switching to a coil on plug setup you can run a bigger gap on your plugs you get a little bit stronger spark throttle response gets better idle gets better drivability gets better I think your fuel mileage even gets better and I think you can make a little bit more power as well so a lot of benefits to doing it I wish I wasn't doing it the same time as everything else I could clearly see like the differences but what's up Derek hey you come a Carter let me later or what yeah there's a league night tonight so we're gonna take a break and go over to on track and Wallingford and we're gonna go throw down there's like a think is like a 17 lap race qualifying I saw some of you guys commenting before about deleting both balance shafts and we are deleting both of them indeed what were you saying about the way that they deleted them now normally when you do sort of the budget way of deleting these things as you can buy the kit and like I said I'm a performance has it and it's relatively cheap I was like 36 bucks on their website or something but it comes with two new bearings and on this side of the balance chef here this is the actual rear of the motor see these two little plugs there's a plug here and there's actually another one that sits right behind here normally what you do to the chief point out is you punch the bearings out you spin them around and then you push them back in so that they cover the oil galleys now what these guys did with this block to delete it was they actually ran through here with a drill bit drilled into the oil galley and then sent a plug in so we don't have to actually put that bearing back in because it's so that's pretty cool pretty neat I made performance has been helping me a ton on this build and I asked them if they could give me a code or something that I could offer to you guys in case you want to get something for your Evo dsm or any of the cars or parts that they have offered on their site so if you guys want to use my code just Adam LZ that will get you five percent off most stuff on their website some brands are price locks they don't allow them to discount the price but anything that made performance makes and a bunch of other brands you can use the 5% discount it's just a damn LZ we try it you'll see what it works for them what it doesn't but I'll put that link down in the description made a quick Starbucks Troma Derrick got some frappuccinos like these little baby ones we got for Dustin they got this weird like what's it called tie-dye tastes like Laffy Taffy and chemicals not bad little drinks big trunks oh you're driving his how it is that's how I didn't even realize I got on the wrong side the radius right the camera says I'm not gonna hit anything I'm gonna hit every stalk absolutely he's not coming go-karting with us this guy sells guy sells more cars than anyone I know how can you afford to go go-karting the lead night was pretty cool they had like a qualifying race and then that went in to like the first of the race that they got split up into two mains I qualified a place kind of like mid-pack in the first teeth which was okay I didn't really ever run this track in Reverse they normally run in the other direction for normal nights so it's a bit different kind of cool a little bit faster on the layout but if you're watching the footage right here I think no I guess it's the next lap I went a little bit too wide there in left room for the person behind me to dip right in really hard to mask people because you know the cards are very momentum based and a lot of these drivers come here often so they don't really give you space to pass and you can't really play dirty so it's it's really challenging to pass and a little bit frustrating cause I feel like wherever you start is kinda where you're gonna end up but still it was fond of different as an experience and I don't know it was just cool it was different I don't know but anyway you'll see right as I'm coming up my thing not this corner the next one right here I go a little bit too wide and she cuts right so we were battling out the rest of the race and I was just faced to leave behind him and couldn't find any space to pass but it was fun just drive bumper-to-bumper lap after lap after lap after lap so it's cool to kind of being able to focus on someone in front of you and just kind of watch what they do see where they make mistakes and try to take that one doe but I never really got that window so anyway I thought I'd just include a short little clip and then we'll go back to the shop and see what's going on with the engine karley fun a little frustrated with how tight the track was and like being really difficult past but just cool change of pace I had fun and while we were gone as you guys already saw from that little montage Justin got the engine and already how'd it go looks so cool with the new manifold I didn't realize how in your face would because I think in my head I thought it was flipped I forgot that these are bottom mount looks so nice so I think the goal is tomorrow to get most of the other little random stuff bolted on hopefully get it started and maybe tuned but I'm have a feeling but enough we'll be able to make tuning tomorrow so you see fingers crossedwalking through the parking lot on my video rendering my Starbucks look at this big ol thing sticking out like crazy there is something that I've been keeping from you guys and it's kind of a little bit more in a personal level and something that I've been embarrassed to talk about and but I feel like I kind of need to explain to give you guys a better idea of why things have kind of been how they've been and why I've been feeling a certain type of way so definitely not something I'm comfortable with admitting but about a year ago a year and a half ago I saw my first episode of initial D and I wasn't too stoked I didn't understand the hype never thought anything of it somehow I gave it another shot and once I got into season 2 where the Evo's came out I was hooked like every end of every single episode had to keep watching the next one another thing that I learned too is you have to watch it subbed not dubbed it's much better but anyway yeah I was embarrassed that I watched initial Dean didn't like it and I'm so late to the game but I've just really been enjoying it I found myself staying up to like 3 a.m. every night watching this would be and then waking up early because I don't have blinds and it's made me kind of tired so I'm getting a later start today but we're in Wallingford we're gonna run over to more fab got a bunch of rad stuff in for the Evo I'm pretty sure we have everything we need to maybe even get it running today so I'm gonna go over there check it one Justin she got some of the new rad parts we got from my performance you'll get some stuff done I'm sleepy bump in that new wage war I also found out Justin has someone that will fastest Wi-Fi around so I also get my videos up pretty quick definitely convenient look like my chocolate ruined said hey Justin do you have a fridge that I could put my five-pound bag of gummy worms in okay cool thanks that's all I need alright Justin so I've been gone what like a day and you've almost got it ready to go back in the car so give me a quick update walk around what you've been up to any weird things or what you've kind of been going through with this process okay well there's actually quite a few weird things this is an Evo a block with an Evo 8 cylinder head we had to fit the Evo 5 water outlet which is not a huge deal but the Evo 5 pipe we had to modify the bracket back here just a hair to get it in there so the bolt still doesn't go in but it is super tight and there are a few other odds and ends that we had to modify another one being the water pump in the alternator bracket and we needed a longer bolt and then we had to modify this case right here to fit over the Evo a water pump cuz that's for the Evo 5 so just been a lot of little quirky things and then what's been taking a lot of time is this was a bear long block and by bear long block it had absolutely no Hardware on it whatsoever so we've been having to actually tear down the old motor just to get all the bolts and nuts and brackets and everything else that go with it so definitely takes a little bit of time but he's ready to go one of the little like setbacks when you were pulling apart the Eva 5 engine we had some more damage we found that the sprocket that drives the oil pump was actually cracked the crank position sensor was broken the crank trigger wheel was bent so there was a lot of stuff we had to wait on some parts to get in and luckily ma overnighted torso yep so we're in good shape but I seen you over here well you got four different torque wrenches are using on this thing yeah we're using an inch pound wrench for the ten millimeter bolts we're using a foot-pounds wrench for the for the twelve millimeter bolts and then the big ones like the crank bolt stuff like that we use so make sure everything got torqued down properly if you want these things to last you gotta torque these things down where you like using like the Mitsubishi spec sheet or something yeah actually have seven page spec sheets specifically for the engine so everything on this engine is torqued to the factory specification sheet that's sick we don't usually do that well like torque a few of the important things but that's legit so anyway cool looks like it's coming in good shape that fresh new oil pan on there Derek did you see the old oil pan oh yeah oh there it is yep I don't know what kitty litter got in my engine though that's a little weird maybe that's why I blew up so some of the other exciting goodies that came in the mail first off we have a tubular manifold so a my performance actually makes this for Evo 8/9 but it'll work on the five so we can keep the stock location stock turbo setup with the Evo nine turbo or if we decide to go with an upgraded stock frame in the future but now we've got a nice tubular manifold so this thing's pretty durable take welded and what me and Justin we're looking at before that's really nice is all these transitions or CNC ported so they're nice and smooth there are a lot of times on manifolds you'll kind of get like a rough transition there and that can't be good for flow so this is pretty nice Justin you approve you like this thing yeah I'm curious to see what its gonna sound like to you know we've changed quite a bit of stuff I mean I don't think the compression will make that big of a difference but with a new manifold now and the new Thai exhaust this thing's probably gonna sound rad so this is really cool I'm excited to see the difference and this thing's gonna look awesome in there too this thing's really pretty another cool little random thing I got from my performance I didn't want to put a stinky old valve cover on a fresh new built engine so they were able to help me source a brand new Evo eight valve cover so this thing's all nice and pretty red like it would be on a brand new Evo eight so it's pretty rad looking you think you like it Justin what don't you like all right fair enough one other thing that I got from ma performance was probably the last fun bit for today's video well at least for today's video on parts is what I mean is their prototype coil on plug setup so this is something that most people with Evo's do that I was kind of lagging on check this out this thing is rad it's got a really nice billet mounting plate with these Denso coil packs it's got its own little harness too which is pretty cool so it's just plug and play so I don't think these are available yet but they did say that these will be coming out soon so I'm one of the first people to get my hands on these there's a few benefits of switching to a coil on plug setup you can run a bigger gap on your plugs you get a little bit stronger spark throttle response gets better idle gets better drivability gets better I think your fuel mileage even gets better and I think you can make a little bit more power as well so a lot of benefits to doing it I wish I wasn't doing it the same time as everything else I could clearly see like the differences but what's up Derek hey you come a Carter let me later or what yeah there's a league night tonight so we're gonna take a break and go over to on track and Wallingford and we're gonna go throw down there's like a think is like a 17 lap race qualifying I saw some of you guys commenting before about deleting both balance shafts and we are deleting both of them indeed what were you saying about the way that they deleted them now normally when you do sort of the budget way of deleting these things as you can buy the kit and like I said I'm a performance has it and it's relatively cheap I was like 36 bucks on their website or something but it comes with two new bearings and on this side of the balance chef here this is the actual rear of the motor see these two little plugs there's a plug here and there's actually another one that sits right behind here normally what you do to the chief point out is you punch the bearings out you spin them around and then you push them back in so that they cover the oil galleys now what these guys did with this block to delete it was they actually ran through here with a drill bit drilled into the oil galley and then sent a plug in so we don't have to actually put that bearing back in because it's so that's pretty cool pretty neat I made performance has been helping me a ton on this build and I asked them if they could give me a code or something that I could offer to you guys in case you want to get something for your Evo dsm or any of the cars or parts that they have offered on their site so if you guys want to use my code just Adam LZ that will get you five percent off most stuff on their website some brands are price locks they don't allow them to discount the price but anything that made performance makes and a bunch of other brands you can use the 5% discount it's just a damn LZ we try it you'll see what it works for them what it doesn't but I'll put that link down in the description made a quick Starbucks Troma Derrick got some frappuccinos like these little baby ones we got for Dustin they got this weird like what's it called tie-dye tastes like Laffy Taffy and chemicals not bad little drinks big trunks oh you're driving his how it is that's how I didn't even realize I got on the wrong side the radius right the camera says I'm not gonna hit anything I'm gonna hit every stalk absolutely he's not coming go-karting with us this guy sells guy sells more cars than anyone I know how can you afford to go go-karting the lead night was pretty cool they had like a qualifying race and then that went in to like the first of the race that they got split up into two mains I qualified a place kind of like mid-pack in the first teeth which was okay I didn't really ever run this track in Reverse they normally run in the other direction for normal nights so it's a bit different kind of cool a little bit faster on the layout but if you're watching the footage right here I think no I guess it's the next lap I went a little bit too wide there in left room for the person behind me to dip right in really hard to mask people because you know the cards are very momentum based and a lot of these drivers come here often so they don't really give you space to pass and you can't really play dirty so it's it's really challenging to pass and a little bit frustrating cause I feel like wherever you start is kinda where you're gonna end up but still it was fond of different as an experience and I don't know it was just cool it was different I don't know but anyway you'll see right as I'm coming up my thing not this corner the next one right here I go a little bit too wide and she cuts right so we were battling out the rest of the race and I was just faced to leave behind him and couldn't find any space to pass but it was fun just drive bumper-to-bumper lap after lap after lap after lap so it's cool to kind of being able to focus on someone in front of you and just kind of watch what they do see where they make mistakes and try to take that one doe but I never really got that window so anyway I thought I'd just include a short little clip and then we'll go back to the shop and see what's going on with the engine karley fun a little frustrated with how tight the track was and like being really difficult past but just cool change of pace I had fun and while we were gone as you guys already saw from that little montage Justin got the engine and already how'd it go looks so cool with the new manifold I didn't realize how in your face would because I think in my head I thought it was flipped I forgot that these are bottom mount looks so nice so I think the goal is tomorrow to get most of the other little random stuff bolted on hopefully get it started and maybe tuned but I'm have a feeling but enough we'll be able to make tuning tomorrow so you see fingers crossed\n"